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Monthly Archives: August 2009
Always live as if you’ll be here permanently
Christian’s guest blog earlier this week reminded me of a golden rule when you move, especially if you only move somewhere on some sort of temporary assignment. That rule is: always live your life as if you’ll live permanently where … Continue reading
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PowerPC
At DAC, I happened to bump into Kaveh Massoudian of IBM, who is also the CTO of power.org, the consortium that deals with all things PowerPC. I previously met him when I was at Virtutech which was the era when … Continue reading
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Guest blog: Christian Burisch
Today’s guest blog is from Christian Burisch. He started his professional life as a chip designer and then became an AE for Ambit (where I first met him), Co-Design (SystemVerilog) and Tenison. Deciding to step back from the EDA industry … Continue reading
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How do you get a CEO job?
How do you get to be CEO? I’ve done it a couple of times now and I’d be happy to do it again. I assume we are talking about a startup of some kind rather than a large company. But … Continue reading
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Macs and PCs
The PC market is obviously one of the huge markets for semiconductors. I think that the semiconductor content in cell-phones (in aggregate) is now greater than in PCs but I can’t find the reference I remember. I was at Google … Continue reading
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